Down the transalpine traffic goods because of the economic crisis and of the closing of Saint Gottardo



For the consecutive second half of the year the transalpine traffic goods has recorded a bending. The Helvetic federal Office of transports (UFT) has announced that in the first semester of the 2012 traffic goods on the road and railroad it is dropped considerably because of the economic crisis of Europe, decrease that for how much it concerns the railroad is emphasized by the closing from on 5 June on 2 July of the railway line of Saint Gottardo.

In the first six months of the 2012 traffic goods on track through the Alps it is diminished of 8.2%. If already the first trimester of this year had marked a bending, in according to trimester the such negative tendency it has become still marked when the axis of Saint Gottardo has remained closed for a month because of the landslide fallen near Gurtnellen, in the District of Uri. The federal Office of the transports has specified that without such closing, and supposing that in june the traffic goods on track would have followed the same evolution recorded from January to May 2012, in the first semester the reduction would have been of 5% and not of 8.2%. The UFT has specified moreover that during the closing the axis of the Lötschberg-Sempione, also with considerable delays also, has absorbed a considerable part of the traffic goods of Saint Gottardo, than in the days of tip has touched 25 trains in more; moreover, second the data of the operators of the arranged transport, the 10-20% of the transport goods is diverted on not Helvetic railway corridors, above all on Brenner.

In the first semester of the 2012 number of the transits of truck on the Swiss Alps it is diminished of 2.9% attesting itself to 628.000 vehicles. Without the closing of the railway line of Saint Gottardo - it has found the UFT - such reduction would have been of 5%, with a number of transits in June recorded pairs to 102.000 instead of the 115,000 because of the closing of the line. According to the UFT, the negative tendency in the transport on the road it is due mainly to the economic difficulties in which it pours Europe, in particular Italy. As a result of the closing of Saint Gottardo the transits on the road are increased of 13.000 units (about 540 in more to the day), pairs to an additional volume of 170.000 tons of goods.

Altogether in the first semester of the 2012 the goods transported on the road or railroad on the Swiss Alps has been pairs to 19,6 million tons (- 6.5%). The closing of Saint Gottardo has provoked, second a maximum esteem, a reduction of about 260.000 tons of this volume of transport. In normal conditions the reduction would have been of 5.3% and not, as recorded, of 6.5%.

While the UFT has communicated that it will adopt a series of compensatorie measures in favor of the enterprises of arranged transport hit from the interruption of the line of Saint Gottardo. In particular, in 2012 the norm will not be applied that previews a reduction of the ndemnities for the arranged transport if the operators supply inferior performances of 15% regarding agreed how much with the Confederation. Moreover, exceptionally, the Confederation will pour ndemnities of exercise also for transport turned aside abroad. For all the 2012 Confederation it will pour also ndemnity for a maximum of 33 shipments for train rather than for 30, as expected initially; the operators will receive therefore until 300 franchi Swiss in more for train. At last the Confederation will make cargo of good part of which had the uncovered fixed costs of the travelling freeway at the close of the line of Saint Gottardo and to the current closing of that of the Sempione (from 11 August on 2 September).

The UFT has announced moreover that in the 2013 Confederation it will renounce to reduce the ndemnities for the transport arranged not accompanied through the Alps. Such decision holds account of the difficult conditions picture in which the field is found currently, imputable, as well as to the infrastructural limitations in the course of 2012, to the increase of the prices of the traces previewed for beginning 2013, to the been extended situation of weakness of the euro and to negative the conjunctural forecasts for the eurozona.